Levels Of Development Of Consciousness Or What Determines Your Life

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

This model of "levels of consciousness" is beautifully described by the American psychiatrist David Hawkins, now a world famous spiritual teacher who experienced the experience of enlightenment.

In fact, this is a great model that makes it possible to look at different things in a new way and understand why certain events occur in people's lives and what this or that person is guided by.

This ingenious model is simple, straightforward and very intuitive. In addition, it has excellent practical application in everyday life and in psychotherapy. I can say that even if you do not study the works of David Hawkins in depth, but just read this article and begin to apply the knowledge gained, at least in the little things in life, this will guaranteed to raise the level of your current consciousness.

Evolution and development of levels of human consciousness

To begin with, I would like to clarify some of the nuances.

Consciousness level - this is not the same as intelligence (IQ), also this concept should not be confused with emotional intelligence, these are different things.

Go ahead Attractor, from the word attract - to attract, we can say that this is a kind of field, or egregor, which is, as it were, a field of consciousness at the moment and to which a person is striving. Now let us connect these two concepts: the level of consciousness is determined by the attractor towards which consciousness is striving (at the moment).

Now let's analyze, in principle, what a person's consciousness can strive for based on the level of development. All levels of consciousness can be conditionally divided on a scale from 1 to 1000, where the lowest level 1 denotes existence as such (bacteria), and 1000 denotes the highest level of development of consciousness in the physical body (Jesus, Buddha, Krishna).

Let's consider these levels in even more detail, in more detail, using the life stages of S. V. Kovalev, namely the pre-social stage - adaptation, the social stage - socialization, the post-social stage - existentialization and above the social stage - transpersonalization, so let's go:

1 Pre-social stage (adaptation):

At this stage, the attractors for a person are a sense of shame, shame, humiliation, at this level a person has a level of consciousness of only 20 points

The next level of self-punishment, guilt, reproaches, accusations, masochism - this corresponds to - 30 balls;

Next comes despair, helplessness, apathy, sadness, heaviness - this corresponds to 50 points;

Next comes sadness, grief, loss, regret, longing - this corresponds to 75 points;

As, in principle, it is clear at this level there are destructive, destructive feelings and emotions, self-rejection, accusations and self-destruction, this is where this level ends and we move on to the next level.

2 Social stage (socialization):

At this stage, attractors for a person are feelings of anxiety, anxiety, various fears, fear of condemnation, etc., which corresponds to 100 points on the scale;

Next comes the level of desires, needs, instincts, various wishes, thirst, envy, all kinds of addictions, which corresponds to 125 points;

Next comes the level of hatred, dissatisfaction with desires, anger, rage - this corresponds to 150 points;

And conventionally, the last is pride, contempt, CHSV - which correspond to 175 points;

This level of consciousness ends the level of socialization. Oddly enough, it is these attractors that allow a person to successfully socialize and fit into society, master the social framework, work, achieve success, and have material wealth. But here at this level there is one insidious nuance - if a person reaches the level of pride and does not develop further, go to higher levels of development, then such a person has every chance of falling to the lowest level again, to the level of shame and shame.

In principle, these two levels of consciousness (up to 200) are considered destructive and destructive. But according to the data that David Hawkins cites in his writings, 80% of all humanity live on these two levels. This explains the position to go from problems, the position of survival, the position of frenzied satisfaction of animal instincts, personal gain above all, identification with the ego and the body.

And vice versa, as soon as a person goes to the +200 level, it is as if a quantum leap of consciousness occurs. Here, instead of the destructive and destructive force, a creative, creative force begins to prevail in the consciousness of a person.

These changes permeate not only consciousness, the structure of the human psyche, but even affect physiology, the endocrine, autonomic and central nervous system begins to work differently.

There is still some pretty interesting research. At the level of consciousness development up to 200, 15% of people considered themselves happy, but already this percentage at the level of consciousness 200-300 increased to 60%. These and other interesting indicators are shown in the table below:

3 post social stage (existentialization)

Courage, courage, the ability to overcome difficulties - correspond to level 200;

Next comes neutrality, allowing yourself and others to live as you want, without condemnation - this level corresponds to 250 points;

The next level of good nature, readiness, optimism - corresponds to 310 points;

And completes the 3rd stage forgiveness, emotional calmness, acceptance, refusal to change the world - 350 points;

It is at this level that responsibility for one's life appears, an understanding comes that everything has its own lesson, which must be realized and accepted. At this level, there is no search for the guilty, a person at this level frees himself from an unbalanced emotional swing and moves into a position Above them, there is a conscious management of his emotional sphere, acceptance of himself and others, such as they are, appears, without the desire to constantly change someone. It is here that basically the human consciousness is filled with positive, constructive emotions, feelings and experiences.

4 Above social stage (transpersonalization)

At this stage, attractors for a person are:

Reason, comprehension, intellect, the level of Nobel laureates, cold - 400.

Love. Absolute - 500.

Joy, goodness, ecstasy, compassion - 540.

Harmony, extaz - 600.

At this stage, it is extremely difficult to describe in words these feelings and states in which a person arrives. If the level of mind is still in principle somehow designated that this is the level, for example, of Einstein, then when you go to the level of 500 (which Enstein did not do), absolute love arises, i.e. displacement from the assemblage point from the mind to the heart. This is the level of absolute happiness, which, if translated into biochemical language, is associated with the release of dopamine, endorphin, serotonin (and not adrenaline, norepinephrine, cortisol as in levels up to 200). Next are the levels of enlightenment and healing. There is evidence that near-death experiences allow people to experience energy levels around 600.

At the 540 level, there are only 0.4% of all people

Above this, there are already levels of awareness of Divinity, Consciousness of God, understanding of your true essence.

At the moment on the planet, people whose level of consciousness is +600 - can be counted on two hands.

Action at level 600 and above perceived as slow, stretched out in time and space. Everything around is alive, shining and continuously flowing, unfolding in a completely controlled evolutionary dance.

Important findings and principles

The level of consciousness of people rose slowly. At the time of the birth of the Buddha, the collective consciousness of all mankind was at the level of 90. It then rose to 100 at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ and slowly developed to 190 over the next two millennia; it remained at this level for many centuries, up to the end of the 1980s. Then in the late 1980s, it suddenly rose from 190 to 204–205, where it remained until November 2003, when it suddenly rose again to its present level of 207. Currently, the consciousness of about 78% of all humanity is below the 200 level.

It is important to understand that each person is, as it were, “smeared” across all these conditional levels of development of consciousness, there is no such person who would always be at the 1st level or under the influence of only one attractor.

Also, a person can have different attractors in areas of life - health, love and sex, money, work, relationships.

Still, a person can sometimes rise to higher levels of consciousness, but if he is under the influence of lower ones, sooner or later they will pull him down.

Even famous professors, doctors of sciences can be at a level below 200. In any case, it is better to set goals for the transition over 200. The transition levels over 400 - 500 will require colossal work on themselves. At the same time, after 200, a person has an inner Spirit, a willingness to solve their problems.

The most beautiful feature of mixing this model with the system of psychotherapy is that using the tools of psychotherapy, you can quickly raise your level of consciousness (according to the same data given in Hawkins' books, the level of consciousness of an ordinary average person in ordinary life rises by only 5 points!)

If you were at the 20-50 level (shame, apathy, grief, etc.) and were able to move to the 100-150 levels (aggression, desires, anger), then this is an indicator of growth! One way or another, despite the still present negative emotions, these attractors are stronger in their strength, but at the same time, you cannot fall into the trap, because you can live your whole life on these attractors.

You need to be careful with setting goals and desired results - goals at the level of desires, pride are very fond of mixing with achievements in life on the social plane. But, as you understand, this is a position of weakness, a person will not feel a noticeable leap in development. Although it is permissible for a person to crawl out of the very bottom to these levels, but only in order to go further. The path to Buddha lies through Freud. Wilber.

Try to surround yourself with high attractors in order to reach up (books, music, people around, etc.). In addition, what you listen to, read and communicate with can tell about your present level of consciousness.

With the introduction of levels of consciousness, concepts such as intelligence, IQ, emotional intelligence, memory, vitality, muscle tone, internal dialogue, charisma, and so on, simply fade away. Attempts to act separately on their supposedly abilities at the same level of consciousness lead to overloads and even greater frustrations. And on the contrary, in people with a high level of consciousness, memory, intellect, physical body and so on are easily and simply kept at very high levels.

It is poorly imagined that without psychotherapy or other practices, one can raise the level of consciousness. Listening to classical music, reading great books, acquiring truths, practicing martial arts will certainly lift you up, but you will fall down. The same applies to various kinds of travel to other countries.

The same goes for companies, corporations, firms. Where the leading attractor is force, for example, the level of neutrality (we are not talking about the level of love - very few people are capable of this) - there will be success. Even if the “competitor” takes and copies the entire sales scheme, he will not get the same result if he is guided by fear or pride. All methods applicable at a level less than 200, used "for the good" - only exacerbate the situation. War for peace is nonsense. To restore justice through revenge - exacerbate misperceptions. The fact is that people who have superhigh levels of consciousness - more than 500-600-700 balance this balance, each individual enlightened person can hold up to several million (!) People.

The only way to help yourself and this world is to raise your level of consciousness

That's all. Until next time. Sincerely Dmitry Poteev.